Malware

The U.S. Department of Education issued a belated warning to the nation's school districts concerning cyberattacks that use threats of violence against students in an attempt to extort money from the district.

Microsoft's already battered Office 365 is once again being targeted, this time by KnockKnock, a botnet attack designed to specifically victimize the office productivity software suite.

The Sockbot malware has made its way into at least eight Apps in the Google Play Store with the intent of adding devices to botnets and performing DDoS attacks.

Symantec researchers said a new error-reporting capability and screen grab functionality indicates that Necurs attackers are trying to obtain operational intelligence.

Domino's Pizza Australia has disclosed that a data breach at one of its third-party suppliers may have resulted in a spam campaign aimed at customers of the restaurant and food delivery chain.

A Russian hacker with a knack for modifying popular video games implanted a stealth cryptominer in his creations, including a mod of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) recently found on a Russian-speaking forum, available for download.

Kaspersky Labs has researched an ATM hacking kit it had found for sale on the now defunct AlphaBay darknet marketplace that would allow a criminal to empty an ATM of cash.

Adobe Systems on Monday issued an emergency patch for a zero-day Flash Player vulnerability, after an APT group was discovered actively exploiting the bug as a means to infect machines with FinSpy surveillance malware.